SDM Staff Editor Amanda Reed chats with Tony Diodato, founder and chief technology officer at Cypress Integration Solutions and recipient of the 2021 SIA Standards Service Award to talk about his role as co-chair of the Security Industry Association (SIA) OSDP working group.

 

With the recent notification by HID® Global Corp. to its customers, that it would be obsolescing its Wiegand card and reader line as of January 31, 2013 (except for some iCLASS®/Wiegand transition cards, which will be offered through March 31, 2013), Secura Key, Chatsworth Calif., made the announcement that it has been and continues to be a reliable and trusted manufacturing resource for many types of access control cards. Secura Key stated that it is the only resource for Wiegand Cards to the industry.

Physical security systems run on state-of-the-art hardware and software infrastructure. Increasingly the industry is turning to cloud application solutions, and identity databases are being hosted on virtualized servers.